UK geotweeps! Need assistance. Coming ~April 21-May 6th. Likely staying in approx. map area below. Visiting geosites/geoparks/museums, but also love off beaten track non-geo stuff. Want:.i. Advice on hidden gems.ii. Meet ups w/ geo ppl (chats or field).iii. Free guest rooms :)

I'll also note I've also called many times. Got bounced around, given conflicting info, and got nowhere. Plus, I encountered issues w/ car and charges before. Raised issue in multiple emails. Complaints never acknowledged. Worst rental agency I've dealt with. Bottomline: AVOID.

I can't process any expenses for this trip until this is finished, so everything is sitting on credit card. Their language implies some big forthcoming charge, so it's been three weeks of high anticipatory stress.

Two weeks later. After asking repeatedly for clarification of what damages are being 'investigated' (their language) & what timeline is, I get this email today: Insurance department is 'waiting on documentation'. before charging me. (Foreboding.) Again: Car *needed vacuuming*.

So, they'll charge me a cleaning fee, and be done, right? Nope. May 13th I get this scary letter from their insurance department:

Here's the damage: Note: these are *their* photos (from damage notice). Is there some sand & pebbles? Sure. Is there hair/smoke/burns/stains/anything weird. No. Was anything else wrong? 100% not. (I have no idea what the fourth photo is supposed to show. Mud on the outside?)

PSA to academic colleagues, esp. those planning field work/anything on grant, stay away from @EuropcarUK. Returned car May 6 that required vacuuming (couldn't find one). Three weeks later, 19 emails exchanged, I am still in limbo over pending 'damage' charges w/ no end in sight.

Re-upping this. Still trying to track down this paper in Irish Journal of Earth Sciences. Can anyone with a large university library help? Tried emailing author and GSI to no avail. (Aside: Isn't it crazy how hard it is to access academic work, even for academics. ).

Can any Irish colleagues or those at bigger unis provide access to a paper in the Irish Journal of Earth Sciences? Our library doesn't have access & all my other efforts have failed. @GeolSurvIE

If you're in Sydney, get up to CBU tonight to meet Nobel Prize winner Art MacDonald! Local boy who made good! (2015, Physics.) Free talk for the public. #CapeBreton

Square dance at the Dorchester legion tonight. $5 for students. Beer and bar shots are only $4.25! No obligation to dance; you can just enjoy tunes. #CapeBreton

We have friend in Bath, so will be based there for part of time. South coast is bucket list, based on paleo history (as is Down House, etc.). Very interested in seeing smaller geomuseums, history of science stops, cute towns/markets (have non-geo spouse w/ me!), fossil hunting.

I've been planning a 2+ week trip to the US this spring for months. I would have spent several thousand dollars. I've changed plans to go to UK instead. Like most Canadians, I will not be visiting or supporting a country that has decided to destroy our economy for LOLs. #tarrifs

These revised milestone were based on a lit review conducted in *2019*, before any impacts from COVID. I really wish there were ways to report misinformation on here. (Comments are locked.).

RT @SteveBrusatte: Sharks eating dinosaurs! At the charming @narodnimuzeum in Prague. Totally morbid paleoart. But based on one of the few….

RT @e8chin: We found the Moho today above the Challenger Deep. Here’s a piece of cut serpentinized peridotite from just a bit shy of 6000 m….

Trilobites with antennae are as unnerving to me as dinosaurs with feathers. What an amazing fossil!.

RT @progeoconsult: Standing room only for Dr. Dale Leckie’s talk at today’s CEGA Luncheon: “Exploring Alberta's Other Reserves - The Scenic….

Real question: How do you even collection something like that? Wowsers.

RT @ryankatzrosene: 🧵Thread with examples of why it’s dumb to say “CO2 is only 0.04% of the atmosphere, so it can’t possibly have an effect….